expendable
20-10-08, 07:02
hello there,
i am twenty-one years old, and a college student (in my last year...yey!). i actually found this website while googling a symptom (haha) that i had just gotten--very weird feeling in my legs, worse then a tingling, sort of a tightening--and one of the links on google led me here.
i'm so glad i started reading the message board. between reading through posts for 45 minutes or so to distract me and then talking to my boyfriend, i was able to get throught my panic attack and the symptom is now gone.
it was so weird! i'd never had that feeling before. i was convinced i had restless leg syndrome or a blot clot or something...it was a unique attack for me as most of mine involve more then one "symptom".
also, i have been having panic attacks for about three and a half years. the first attack i had my friend graciously took me to the hospital where i had to wait an agonizingly long time (in my mind) to see someone and be told, no, there was "nothing wrong" with me and i wasn't dying...hmph. well, maybe i wasn't dying, but there is something wrong with me...the event that triggered my first attack was so silly. i had a belly button ring at the time and it had became irritated and my body was rejecting it. somehow i became convinced that i was going to get violently sick because my bellybutton was infected (it wasn't, just irritated--i did end up retiring it after that night though) and it triggered that first attack. *sigh*
the only other attack where i went to the dr. they just gave me a pill and told me i'd be okay. even though it had happened before. i feel bad returning because i know i have the mental power to get through the attacks and i don't want to waste my parent's money on dr's visits, but sometimes i wish they would just give me meds i could take when an attack started.
i was depressed a lot my second year in college, but i can say things have gotten better on that front, especially in the past year. only now, as i mentioned above, my attacks are sneakier...the symtoms won't be "full-blown" (i.e. thinking you are having a heart attack, etc), but the incidents definitely happen (i get panic attacks where i am quite nausious fairly often). like tonight with my legs. it hurt so, so bad and i could barely sit or walk without thinking my circulation was just going to be cut off. even typing it now is beginning to awake those feelings, so i think i will stop before i start thinking that way again...i want to go to bed sometime. i have class in the morning, haha!
thanks for reading my whopper of a biography! sorry if it was too much info for my first post...i look forward to utilizing this message board and getting to know some of you, hopefully :)
i am twenty-one years old, and a college student (in my last year...yey!). i actually found this website while googling a symptom (haha) that i had just gotten--very weird feeling in my legs, worse then a tingling, sort of a tightening--and one of the links on google led me here.
i'm so glad i started reading the message board. between reading through posts for 45 minutes or so to distract me and then talking to my boyfriend, i was able to get throught my panic attack and the symptom is now gone.
it was so weird! i'd never had that feeling before. i was convinced i had restless leg syndrome or a blot clot or something...it was a unique attack for me as most of mine involve more then one "symptom".
also, i have been having panic attacks for about three and a half years. the first attack i had my friend graciously took me to the hospital where i had to wait an agonizingly long time (in my mind) to see someone and be told, no, there was "nothing wrong" with me and i wasn't dying...hmph. well, maybe i wasn't dying, but there is something wrong with me...the event that triggered my first attack was so silly. i had a belly button ring at the time and it had became irritated and my body was rejecting it. somehow i became convinced that i was going to get violently sick because my bellybutton was infected (it wasn't, just irritated--i did end up retiring it after that night though) and it triggered that first attack. *sigh*
the only other attack where i went to the dr. they just gave me a pill and told me i'd be okay. even though it had happened before. i feel bad returning because i know i have the mental power to get through the attacks and i don't want to waste my parent's money on dr's visits, but sometimes i wish they would just give me meds i could take when an attack started.
i was depressed a lot my second year in college, but i can say things have gotten better on that front, especially in the past year. only now, as i mentioned above, my attacks are sneakier...the symtoms won't be "full-blown" (i.e. thinking you are having a heart attack, etc), but the incidents definitely happen (i get panic attacks where i am quite nausious fairly often). like tonight with my legs. it hurt so, so bad and i could barely sit or walk without thinking my circulation was just going to be cut off. even typing it now is beginning to awake those feelings, so i think i will stop before i start thinking that way again...i want to go to bed sometime. i have class in the morning, haha!
thanks for reading my whopper of a biography! sorry if it was too much info for my first post...i look forward to utilizing this message board and getting to know some of you, hopefully :)